New Members: Introduce Yourself Here!

[TalismanRich]

Welcome Gonny. I did something similar, going from AW16G to AW1600 to Zoom R24 and finally to Reaper. The Yamaha was a great machine to work with, but using the computer is SOOO much easier to me. You don't have to back up anything when your hard drive gets full, because you've got a terrabyte instead 20MB. Backup is a cinch, and you can dump it to CD, USB flash drive, online, etc with just a could of mouse clicks.

 

[Anomalous]

Hi Jasper here. I've been playing guitar for years and love playing bass; I can sing a bit and am only now learning to play keyboards.

 

[Inafool]

Hi everybody. Im living in the north of sweden, pretty much out in the woods.Im a songwriter and wish I was better at mixing. But I'm trying.

 

[Paul8311!!]

Mastering.com has some awesome resources.

 

[kaptainkeys]

Hi everyone, I'm kaptainkeys, a keyboard player, singer, and engineer/producer writing and recording my own music in my home "studio" if you can call it that. I used to have an actual home studio with the ability to record drums and a real mixing space with studio monitors and basic treatment, but current (temporary) living situations no longer allow for that luxury. Either way, I'm happy to be here to learn and share!

 

[RickEarCandy]

Hi, I'm from Mexico and I'm part of Ear Candy Technologies plugin company. My deep passion is in plugin development and music production, especially mixing and mastering. I would like to share some of my journey while building plugins and also I would like to know new stuff that is currently happening in the production field, especially from many of you.

Hope to get to know each one of you little by little.

Best vibes!!

 

[functionale]

Hi, I’m a musician and academic (history of creative technologies is my man focus). I’m restoring a Tascam 246 as a kind of historical research project. Looking for a power supply for a 246 presently, if anyone has one.

 

[Korgi]

Hi there and thanks for having me. I wouldn't call myself a musician and i am certainly not an academic, dropping out of high school, but I do like playing around with a little synthesizer set-up at home and do some rudimentary recording on my Korg D32XD - about which I might have a question or two in the near future. (That's how I stumbled upon the Homerecording forum in the first place, looking for answers...)
Anyway - thanks again.

 

[Slouching Raymond]

Hi there and thanks for having me. I wouldn't call myself a musician and i am certainly not an academic, dropping out of high school, but I do like playing around with a little synthesizer set-up at home and do some rudimentary recording on my Korg D32XD - about which I might have a question or two in the near future. (That's how I stumbled upon the Homerecording forum in the first place, looking for answers...)
Anyway - thanks again.

Welcome Korgi!
I'm no great academic either. I did scrape a degree, but in the great scheme of things, it is neither here nor there.
Musically, just follow your nose.
I'd like to hear some of your music sometime.
I have a D16XD, and have delved inside it. Its big limitation is doing everything through a 1/4 VGA greyscale screen.

 

[Korgi]

Welcome Korgi!
I'm no great academic either. I did scrape a degree, but in the great scheme of things, it is neither here nor there.
Musically, just follow your nose.
I'd like to hear some of your music sometime.
I have a D16XD, and have delved inside it. Its big limitation is doing everything through a 1/4 VGA greyscale screen.

thanks. funny you should mention the vga screen. before, i used a korg d3200 and i only realised it had the vga board when i sold it and the buyer mentioned it. if any, i do some simple recording of a few tracks, and add some more later on, but i never come to the point of mixing the tracks to master tracks. (maybe once or twice.) so basically some old style cassette tape recording on a digital machine. i had sold my d32xd a year ago, thinking i'm not worthy, but i could not find the sound quality and logical interface on any other (cheaper or newer) alternative. so i went back to korg. first i fould a d3200, then a d16xd and a week or so later a d32xd. (i could really do with the 4 aux sends.) i had replaced the noisy cooling fan on my previous d32xd - and ordered to more of these fans to replace those of the d16xd and d32xd, only to find that the d16xd apparently has a different fan (5V instead of 12V) and the the one in the D32XD had already been replaced. badly. taking power from the hard drive connection (which apparently needed some adjusting) and not mounting the fan in its original metal part, which is now missing. i want to correct this (although i wouldn;t know where to find the metal part holding the fan, or the original connector) - but i need to know first, what pins the 2 wires should be connected to. but hey, sorry about this post.....it's the new members welcome, not the help me with a technical issue thread. i got carried away.

 

[ecc83]

thanks. funny you should mention the vga screen. before, i used a korg d3200 and i only realised it had the vga board when i sold it and the buyer mentioned it. if any, i do some simple recording of a few tracks, and add some more later on, but i never come to the point of mixing the tracks to master tracks. (maybe once or twice.) so basically some old style cassette tape recording on a digital machine. i had sold my d32xd a year ago, thinking i'm not worthy, but i could not find the sound quality and logical interface on any other (cheaper or newer) alternative. so i went back to korg. first i fould a d3200, then a d16xd and a week or so later a d32xd. (i could really do with the 4 aux sends.) i had replaced the noisy cooling fan on my previous d32xd - and ordered to more of these fans to replace those of the d16xd and d32xd, only to find that the d16xd apparently has a different fan (5V instead of 12V) and the the one in the D32XD had already been replaced. badly. taking power from the hard drive connection (which apparently needed some adjusting) and not mounting the fan in its original metal part, which is now missing. i want to correct this (although i wouldn;t know where to find the metal part holding the fan, or the original connector) - but i need to know first, what pins the 2 wires should be connected to. but hey, sorry about this post.....it's the new members welcome, not the help me with a technical issue thread. i got carried away.

 

[ecc83]

Grannies and eggs aside. getting a clean 5V (a few 100mA?) from a 12V supply is beer into water.

Otherwise I know FA about all this kit!

Dave.

 

[Korgi]

Grannies and eggs aside. getting a clean 5V (a few 100mA?) from a 12V supply is beer into water.

Otherwise I know FA about all this kit!

Dave.

I like to think my English is very good, but I have no idea what you're saying ;-) grannies & eggs aside...... beer into water...... FA.....

 

[Slouching Raymond]

I did a few things to my D16XD.
1 - Disconected the noisy fan. It is pointless anyway. Just sucks cold air out of the bottom of a section away from the warm chips.
2 - Replaced the intermittently dodgy tube screen backlight with LED.
3 - Fitted a 25 pin D connector, and brought the screen signals out to it. I understand how it works, but never actually connected anything to it.

 

[Korgi]

I did a few things to my D16XD.
1 - Disconected the noisy fan. It is pointless anyway. Just sucks cold air out of the bottom of a section away from the warm chips.
2 - Replaced the intermittently dodgy tube screen backlight with LED.
3 - Fitted a 25 pin D connector, and brought the screen signals out to it. I understand how it works, but never actually connected anything to it.

that sounds very promising to me. i have a perfect D16XD standing around here and if I can take out the cooling fan with no harm done, I could use the little connector to the mainboard and the metal part that holds the fan, to replace the poorly built in fan of the D32XD with the proper one (picture) and mount and wire it like originally done.
are you sure the D16XD can do without the cooling fan?

 

[Slouching Raymond]

are you sure the D16XD can do without the cooling fan?

I'm an electronics design engineer.
Very often the 'designers' stick a fan in things just to be safe, and have no idea whether it is necessary.
It sure is noisy though.
If you look inside the D16XD, you see an aliminium wall between the boards that might get warm, and the fan location.
The fan is located at the bottom of the case, where the coldest air is.
There is the switched mode PSU on that side (not too near), but it doesn't get red hot, and any heat it generates will not collect in the bottom of the case.
I made an executive decision to unplug my fan.
People on Studiotrax.net said "No No No, Plug it back in immediately".
Those people were not electronics design engineers.
Anyhow, I got the silence I wanted, and never had a problem with it after that.
The whole aluminium case of the DX16XD is heat sink, and it doesn't get very hot anyway.
When you flip the screen up, any heat can convect out of that hole.

 

[Korgi]

thanks, i'm gonna give that a try then. take it out of the d16xd and use the parts to properly mount the alternative fan in the d32xd. (that fan, btw, is very quiet. i have used the same as a replacement in another d32xd.) i'll get to it tomorrow.

 

[Jeremiahh]

Hi everybody, I'm a 20 y.o. drummer, pianist, and singer. I joined because I want to learn more about recording from people who are more experienced than me. I like writing songs, and I hope to finish writing an album this summer and hopefully record it too.

Some of my musical inspirations are Shawn Mendes, Noah Kahan, 21 Pilots, Jeremy Zucker, Lizzy McAlpine, NF, Ed Sheeran, John Mayer, Forrest Frank, Harry Styles, & Gregory Alan Isakov.

I look forward to learning from you guys, this forum seems like a fun place where everyone is friendly and just trying to get better at their craft and enjoy music.